Quotes About Environment

We believe that the environmental crisis is caused by large outside forces and therefore can be solved only by large outside forces. But recognizing that we are responsible for the problem is the beginning of taking responsibility for the solution.

According to Project Drawdown, four of the most effective strategies for mitigating global warming are reducing food waste, educating girls, providing family planning and reproductive healthcare, and collectively shifting to a plant-rich diet. The benefits of these advancements extend far beyond the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and their primary cost is our collective effort.

Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.

And there was shame in being human: the shame of knowing that twenty of the roughly thirty-five classified species of sea horse worldwide are threatened with extinction because they are killed "unintentionally" in seafood production.

Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, "you are farming by proxy.

We hebben oorlog gevoerd, of eigenlijk hebben we een oorlog laten voeren, tegen alle dieren die we eten. Deze oorlog is nieuw en heeft een naam: bio-industrie. De bio-industrie beschouwt de natuur als een obstakel dat overwonnen moet worden.

Le dérèglement climatique n'est pas un puzzle que l'on pose sur une table basse, vers lequel on peut revenir quand les contraintes horaires nous le permettent et que l'envie nous en prend. Le dérèglement climatique, c'est une maison en flammes.

Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.

For every ten tuna, sharks, and other large fish that were in our oceans less than a century ago, only one is left. Many scientists predict the total collapse of all fished species in less than fifty years.

Animal agriculture is now dominated by the factory farm- 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 97% of laying hens, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calculated 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals, only counting nontherapeutic uses.

Smithfield spilled more than 20 million gallons of lagoon waste into the New River in North Carolina. The spill remains the largest environmental disaster of its kind and is twice as big as the iconic Exxon Valdez 6 years earlier... at the time of the spill, Smithfield was the 7th largest pork producer in the US; two years later it was the biggest.

Man kann auch die Waldbrandgefahr mindern, indem man sämtliche Bäume fällt.

Muchos científicos predicen la debacle total de todas las especies de peces en menos de cincuenta años, mientras se realizan intensos esfuerzos por atrapar, matar y comer más animales marinos

aber wenn wir uns die Mühe machen und uns umsehen, können wir nicht leugnen, dass wir mit unseren täglichen Entscheidungen die Welt gestalten.

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carbon absorption associated with the livestock industry's deforestation should be accounted for:

Virtually all of us agree that it matters how we treat animals and the environment, and yet few of us give much thought to our most important relationship to animals and the environment. Odder still, those who do choose to act in accordance with these uncontroversial values by refusing to eat animals (which everyone agrees can reduce both the number of abused animals and one's ecological footprint) are often considered marginal or even radical.

On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime—one

All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population —

Hoewel de bevolking dus niet profiteert van de bio-industrie, is het ironische ook nog eens dat ze niet alleen van ons verwachten dat we hun producten kopen, maar ook nog eens betalen voor hun fouten. Alle vervuiling, alle onkosten voor het opruimen van hun afval wentelen ze af op de gemeenschap. Hun prijzen zijn kunstmatig laag - voor alle verborgen kosten mag iedereen nog jarenlang betalen.

decision will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve public health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in world history.

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.